When Harriet Greenman was born in 1812, in New York, United States, her father, Luke Greenman, was 33 and her mother, Sybel Rathbun, was 29. She married Orlin Selvey on 20 April 1840, in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Townsend Township, Sandusky, Ohio, United States for about 30 years. She died on 15 July 1895, at the age of 83, and was buried in Parkhurst Cemetery, Clyde, Sandusky, Ohio, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English (Wiltshire): from Middle English grene ‘green’ + man ‘man’, a nickname from the Green Man of folklore, or a topographic name for someone who lived by the village green. Compare Green .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Grunemann or Grünemann: topographic name for someone who lived by the village green (compare above and Greenland ), or a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Grüna, Grünau, or Grüne.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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